The exhibition featured some interesting items from social critic and celebrated author Charles Dickens, including correspondence written by Dickens and a number of rare editions of his books, such as first editions of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist. The exhibition also featured original material from some of Dickens' Victorian contemporaries, including Matthew Arnold; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Thomas De Quincey; Thomas Hardy; Florence Nightingale; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Queen Victoria; and Oscar Wilde.